RE: time clocks

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Linke_Noelle

Hallelujah for salary!!!!
-----Original Message-----
From: Hermina Borgerink [mailto:hborgeri@wfubmc.edu]
Sent: Thursday, March 20, 2003 9:01 AM
To: histonet@pathology.swmed.edu
Subject: FW: time clocks
-----Original Message-----
From: Hermina Borgerink
Sent: Thursday, March 20, 2003 11:41 AM
To: 'Cheryl Powell'; histonet@pathology.swmed.edu
Subject: RE: time clocks
We have a computerized Kronos system, whereby we log in and out at our own PC. We have 6-minute increments with a 3-minute window. If you are supposed to be at work at 8:00 am and you log in at 8:03 am, your time will be counted as of 8:00 am. However, if you log in at 8:04, your time will start as of 8:06 am. Prior to this system, we had a Kronos swipe-in system which was installed near the building's entrance, giving us a few minutes of paid time while we made our way to the lab. Now it takes me 4 minutes to log on from my desk to the Kronos web site, which is dead time. When we first started recording our working hours this way, I would try to do something so as to not just "sit there", but then I would inevitably get caught up in what I was doing and forget to log in until later, meaning I would have to saty longer to make up for the lost time if I wanted credit for an 8-hour day. So, now I sit at my desk for 4 minutes each morning! The upside is that we have instant access to hours worked as well as acrued/used vacation and sick time. I don't think there is any system that will rid the work place of people who want to cheat on time worked. Whether you use a time sheet, which is based on an honor system and which was our means of keeping track of time worked for many years, or whether you use a swipe-in system which we also used for many a year, and now a PC based system, slackers will find a way.
Hermina
Hermina Borgerink, BA, HT(ASCP)HTL, IHQ
Wake Forest University School of Medicine
Department of Pathology
Winston-Salem, NC 27127
-----Original Message-----
From: Cheryl Powell [mailto:cherylhisto@hotmail.com]
Sent: Thursday, March 20, 2003 9:20 AM
To: histonet@pathology.swmed.edu
Subject: time clocks
Hi Histonetters!! I have a few quick questions related to the way your place of employment keeps track of your hourly personnal. Do your techs (HT/HTL/MTL/MT/CT/etc) punch a time clock or swipe a badge- whatever like that? If so, what are the rules for what constitutes a tardy? For example: A tech is scheduled at 6:30am. Is 6:31 a tardy? 6:35? 6:40? And my other question is who descides if someone's tardiness is in need of discipline and is that discipline discretionary (based on circumstances- weather, pregnancy, illness) or straight accross the board for everyone? Thank you for your responses :)
Cheryl Ann Powell B.S., HTL(ASCP)
Botsford General Hospital
Farmington Hills, MI USA
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